It was decided early that the movie's heroine should display a lot 更多 spirit than the somewhat passive virtue of the character in the original fairy tale. The liveaction performance for the animators' reference was supplied 由 Sherri Stoner, the actress who had not long before served the same funtion so very excellently for The Little Mermaid's Ariel, another feisty female part. Belle's part was spoken and sung 由 Paige O'Hara, a...

Portly and chubby-faced, with a large turban and a small stature, the Sultan hardly conforms to one's image of the average despot, yet he is a despot toward his daughter: confined within the palace walls, she must choose a suitor of noble blood 由 the time she is sixteen, because that is the law. It does not occur to the Sultan until very late in the movie that, although he did not originate the law, it is within his power to change...